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The daily broadcast of medical reports, scientific studies and sociological statistics can cause your ears to ring. Sometimes a report will contradict the findings of another issued just days earlier. More often, compelling snapshots of the American experience are revealed in the numbers tucked down near the bottom of an abstract statistic, parked far away from the statistic shouting the loudest up top. We've sifted through many of the reports that have surfaced in the last month or so and taken a closer look. Below is a sampling of interesting nuggets found therein, each shining some light on life, death and the time in between. One in three U.S. adults say they have gone...

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The daily broadcast of medical reports, scientific studies and sociological statistics can cause your ears to ring.
Sometimes a report will contradict the findings of another issued just days earlier. More often, compelling snapshots of the American...

Anthony Q. Jackson and Sanchez Mixon didn't know each other when they met at the Green Line station in Bronzeville on the South Side.Within minutes, Mixon lay dying on the platform and Jackson was gone. That's about the only thing both sides in the case...

An autopsy today concluded a 36-year-old Aurora man died of heat stroke Wednesday evening at his South Side workplace, authorities said. Ronald Guyton, of the 1000 block of North Farnsworth Avenue in Aurora, died of heat stroke, according to the Cook...

Katherine Warrick was 31 when she was blindsided by an aggressive form of breast cancer. Like many young adults, she simply had no time for it: She was a newlywed, finishing her first year of graduate school and working full time as a social worker.
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Men with early stage prostate cancer may live longer if they eat a diet rich in heart-healthy nuts, vegetable oils, seeds and avocados, researchers said.
Their analysis of 4,577 men found those who reported eating vegetable fats were less likely to...

You feel yourself float up and out of your physical body. You glide toward the entrance of a tunnel, and a searing bright light envelops your field of vision.
Rather than an ascent into the afterlife, a new study says these features of a near-death...

Did you know that a person with diabetes is at a high risk for heart disease? According to the American Diabetes Association, people with diabetes have heart disease death rates about two to four times higher than those without diabetes.
Pamela Kontos,...

An autopsy today determined that the death of an 80-year-old south suburban man was due in part to the severe weather, authorities said.
Elias Contreras, of the 2200 block of Olive Street in Blue Island, died of hypothermia and cold exposure, according...

A Northwest Side man and a Calumet Park woman died from cold-related causes on Tuesday, bringing to 10 the number of people who have died from cold-related causes this season in Cook County.
Barnabe Garcia, 49, was found unresponsive and not breathing in...

After a heart attack, women may wait up to an hour longer than men to seek treatment, maybe because they need to cook dinner for their children or because they don't recognize the symptoms. And certain medication may raise the risk of a cardiac event.
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The attorney for the family of Jahi McMath is defending their actions in a new op-ed that criticizes "self-righteous commenters" and praises the 13-year-old brain-dead girl's mother for her courage despite "incendiary, hateful public...

The moment you step into oppressive heat, the body senses life-threatening danger and starts fighting to keep things cool.
The heart beats faster as it increases the flow of blood to the skin, trying to keep critical internal organs from overheating. But...

Vowing to improve the health of Chicagoans and cut the government's soaring health care costs, Mayor Rahm Emanuel went to a sweaty fitness room in Humboldt Park on Tuesday to unveil a comprehensive health agenda that includes a citywide "wellness...

Imagine a place where you can be thinner, where your risk of heart and lung disease is less, where you'd be just all-around healthier. There is such a place.
Let's call it Colorado. Or Nepal. Or Peru. Anyplace with mountains.
Recent studies have...

Three area hospitals were recognized in a new nationwide survey for their treatment of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender patients.
The Human Rights Campaign's Healthcare Equality Index 2011, released last week, cited Advocate Illinois Masonic...

An autopsy today found that careless use of smoking materials partially caused the death of a Logan Square man who suffered burns during a fire that started while using his oxygen tank.Andrzej Piotrowski, 57, died mainly of heart disease but also of...

For most of the last decade, Ronald Vari watched helplessly as his PSA level steadily rose, all too aware that the pattern could be a sign of prostate cancer. Yet initial biopsies didn't detect the disease.
Confused and frustrated, the Chicago resident...

Studies showing that alcohol protects the heart raise questions about drinking.
Does moderate, prudent drinking protect the heart and arteries? Two analyses say — shout, actually — that the answer is yes. But they raise a bigger issue: What should we...

Two years ago, Ruth Maxey was raising six children, including twin granddaughters, a niece and the girl's three siblings.
She was also in her 60s.
It got to be too much, and in January 2011 Maxey had a stroke, not long after she retired from a demanding...

Experts say that a blood test commonly used to screen for prostate cancer can cause more harm than good and leads healthy men to receive useless and sometimes dangerous treatments.But try telling that to the tens of millions of American men who continue...